San Antonio to Irvine

Rather than take the I-10 across west Texas, we opted for the far more scenic US 90, a lovely road through flat deserts punctuated by deep canyons...



...and rivers, such as the Pecos River west of Del Rio. Here is the bridge bringing the highway across the Pecos...



...and looking south from the same spot towards the US-Mexico border (you can make out where the Pecos empties into the Rio Grande, about a mile south of where I am sitting with Maomao):



After a not-so-good Mexican meal in Sanderson, TX, we continued west to Alpine, before cutting across the mountains on route 118 in order to rejoin the interstate:



We had dinner (at another Mexican place) in El Paso and made it as far as Lordsburg, New Mexico that night (staying in a motel on the main drag, appropriately named "Motel Dr.").

The next day, we got up early to try to make it to Irvine before the dreaded LA rushhour. We stopped briefly in Tucson for my fix (at a coffee shop near the University of Arizona), had lunch at a Del Taco in Blythe, and arrived at my dad's place in Irvine about 4 pm.